"a play, and a film adaptation, directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge, was released in 1996. Welsh appeared in the film in the minor role of drug dealer Mikey Forrester. The novel has since achieved a cult status, aided by the popularity of the film. Next, Welsh released ""The Acid House"", a collection of short stories from ""Rebel Inc."", ""New Writing Scotland"" and other sources. Many of the stories take place in and around the housing schemes from ""Trainspotting"", and employ many of the same themes; a touch of fantasy is apparent in stories such as ""The"
"Glue (novel) Glue is a 2001 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. ""Glue"" tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping ""the furious energies of working-class masculinity in the late 20th century, using a compulsive mixture of Lothians dialect, libertarian socialist theory, and an irresistible black humour."" The title refers not to solvent abuse, but the metaphorical glue holding the four friends together through changing times. The four main characters are Terry Lawson (Juice Terry), Billy Birrell"
"Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh. After suffering a stroke, Rebecca Navarro, a best-selling romance novelist, discovers the truth about her corrupt, pornography-loving husband. With the help of Lorraine, her sexually confused nurse, she plots her revenge. Another nurse at the hospital, Glen, has been secretly admiring Lorraine but after a night at a club, decides to pursue her friend Yvonne instead. Meanwhile, Glen has been accepting money from Freddy Royle, a necrophiliac TV personality. The hospital trustees turn a blind eye to Freddy's nefarious"
"(born 1946) ""The Busconductor Hines"" (1984) and ""A Disaffection"" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (born 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (born 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream"
"Disaffection"" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of"
"Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), ""Trainspotting"" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in 1980s Leith, Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of petty crime. These works were linked by a reaction to Thatcherism that"
"outcome of six Super Bowls. ... Meanwhile, [...] with the final chapter still unwritten and the presses scheduled to start rolling in twenty-four hours [...] unless somebody shows up pretty soon with extremely powerful speed, there might not ""be"" a final chapter. About four fingers of king-hell Crank would do the trick, but I am not optimistic. Scottish author Irvine Welsh often portrays drug use in his novels, though in one of his journalism works he comments on how drugs (including amphetamine) have become part of consumerism and how his novels ""Trainspotting"" and ""Porno"" reflect the changes in drug use"
"car to take her to Chet as Robyn instructed. Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornets' nest of paedophiles, just like the one that had haunted him on a similar case in Edinburgh. Now he must protect the girl from them at all costs. Crime (novel) Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, ""Filth"". Ray Lennox is a Detective Inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police who attempts to recover from a mental breakdown induced by stress, cocaine and"
"Filth (novel) Filth is a 1998 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. A sequel, ""Crime"", was published in 2008. It was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name, directed by Jon S. Baird with James McAvoy in the lead role. Bruce Robertson is a detective sergeant serving in Edinburgh's ""Lothian Constabulary"". Robertson is a Machiavellian, intensely misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in cocaine and alcohol abuse, sexually abusive relationships, compulsive gorging on junk food, and, most of all, his penchant for ""the games"" – Bruce's euphemism for the myriad foul plots he hatches directed at workmates."
"(Business Birrell), Andrew Galloway (Gally), Carl Ewart (DJ N-Sign). We first meet them as small children in 1970, then as teenagers around 1980, as young men around 1990 (on holiday in Munich), and as men in their late thirties around 2000 (during the Edinburgh Festival). The novel is split into five different sections. Glue (novel) Glue is a 2001 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. ""Glue"" tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping ""the furious energies"
"Crime (novel) Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, ""Filth"". Ray Lennox is a Detective Inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police who attempts to recover from a mental breakdown induced by stress, cocaine and alcohol abuse and a child murder case in Edinburgh in which he was the lead investigating officer by taking a holiday in Florida with his fiancée, Trudi. The pair meet up with Eddie 'Ginger' Rodgers, one of Lennox's retired former colleagues, and his wife Delores, and they all drink into the early hours of"
"Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is a 2011 Canadian dark romantic comedy film adaptation of the short story """" from the best-selling book """" by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who smuggles ecstasy from Amsterdam. Kristin Kreuk plays his love interest, Heather Thompson. Frustrated with her boring middle class and loveless marriage, Heather Thompson (Kristin Kreuk) seeks a change in her life. At a club, she finds just that in happily partying Lloyd Buist (Adam Sinclair), a drug user. Heather falls hard for Lloyd despite the fact"
"Polygon Books. Members of the group that would come to prominence as writers included James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard and Aonghas MacNeacail. In the 1990s major, prize-winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's ""Trainspotting"" (1993), Warner's ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992) and Kelman's ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994). These works were linked by a sometimes overtly political reaction to Thatcherism that explored marginal areas of experience and used vivid vernacular language (including expletives and Scots dialect). Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success"
"the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum and editor Peter Kravitz. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels, often overtly political, that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's ""Trainspotting"" (1993), Warner's ""Morvern Callar"" (1995), Gray's ""Poor Things"" (1992) and Kelman's ""How Late It Was, How Late"" (1994). Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels. This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish"
"for Canada on November 12, 2012 and was captioned as ""The Best of the Music from the Film"". This album contains tracks from the two soundtracks with additional tracks as well. This album was also distributed by Ecstasy Film Inc. Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy is a 2011 Canadian dark romantic comedy film adaptation of the short story """" from the best-selling book """" by Irvine Welsh. Directed by Rob Heydon, the film stars Adam Sinclair as Lloyd Buist, a drug user who smuggles ecstasy from Amsterdam. Kristin Kreuk plays his love interest, Heather Thompson. Frustrated with her boring"
"not be the effect of the drugs after all. When Lloyd almost dies after a drug smuggling operation goes terribly wrong and faces the possibility of losing Heather, he decides to turn his life around, and he finds that natural highs might be the best of all. He wants to change, but first must deal with Solo. In 2000, director Rob Heydon obtained the rights to the film ""Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy"". It took a few years to acquire financing and to get the script approved by author Irvine Welsh. There were difficulties in having the independent film made; the film"
"Alan Warner, Laura Hird, Toni Davidson and John King before any of them had books in print. Issue 4 featured an infamous 'Ecstasy Interview' - an unedited conversation between Kevin Williamson and Irvine Welsh whilst both editor and writer were under the influence of the psychoactive drug, MDMA. In his blog of February 2008, Kevin Williamson wrote ""I pulled a stunt on Radio Scotland which satisfied the Malcolm McLaren criteria of ""establishing the name"", as related to one of the finest exploitation movies of all time: ""The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle""."" In 1996, following the success of ""Trainspotting"" by Irvine Welsh,"
"Ghost Behind the Wall"" (2000), Burgess has dealt with less realist and sometimes fantastic themes. ""Bloodtide"" (1999) and ""Bloodsong"" (2007) are post-apocalypse adaptations of ""Volsunga Saga"". In 2001 Burgess wrote the novelisation of the film ""Billy Elliot"", based on Lee Hall's screenplay. Polyphony is a narrative technique used in many of his most famous novels. Melvin Burgess Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1998 with the publication of ""Junk"", about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, ""Junk"" became one of the best-known young adult books of"
"addict is the ultimate individualist.."" """" remarks, ""It was known that there was more material of ""Trainspotting"" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality"". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer"
"Marabou Stork Nightmares Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first person account of the past and a more surreal, stream of consciousness account of an otherworldly present. Like many of Welsh's novels, it is written in Edinburgh Scots dialect. The plot consists of the memories and hallucinations of the protagonist, Roy Strang, making him an extreme example of an unreliable narrator. Roy Strang narrates the book from an (at first) unexplained coma, which he has been in for the previous two years."
"fact set out in a capital 'Z' which is the symbol for Zero Tolerance, a women's rights group based in Scotland. The South African narrative is written in a ""Boys' Own"" style. The sociopathic Francis Begbie, one of the main characters in ""Trainspotting"", makes a cameo appearance. Marabou Stork Nightmares Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first person account of the past and a more surreal, stream of consciousness account of an otherworldly present. Like many of Welsh's novels, it is written"
"culture section a display case that contained a pair of Adidas training shoes and a sweater worn by a Hibs casual in the 1980s. The author Irvine Welsh has included many references to the gang in his works with the most noted being the eponymous story in The Acid House collection and the novel Marabou Stork Nightmares. In ""The Acid House"" Coco Bryce is a Hibs boy who while tripping on LSD is struck by lightning which also strikes an ambulance containing a woman in the process of giving birth. He is transplanted into the baby’s body in which later"
"just out for the buzz on drugs, to total junkies. It shows how their attitudes and behaviour start to change as they become more defined by the drug and the culture around it"". In 2012, Welsh said the prequel was actually initially written as part of ""Trainspotting"" but was not used in the published version. He later decided he would either erase his old work or use it in some way, as ""he had a fear that he might fall under a bus and leave behind 'half-written stuff' which people would publish"". He said, ""I just went through it and"
"sociology."" Welsh's novels share characters, giving the feel of a ""shared universe"" within his writing. For example, characters from ""Trainspotting"" make cameo appearances in ""The Acid House"", ""Marabou Stork Nightmares"", ""Ecstasy"", ""Filth"", and slightly larger appearances in ""Glue"", whose characters then appear in ""Porno"". Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect. He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Orr. Instead, he transcribes dialects phonetically. Like Alasdair Gray before him, Welsh also experiments with typography. In the book ""Filth"", the"
"Diane, Branko Đurić as Dr Talzani and Jamie Sives as David (Colin in the novel). It was released in late 2009. Triage (novel) Triage is a 1998 novel by Scott Anderson. Triage focuses on the psychological effects of war on the photo journalist protagonist, Mark. Mark Walsh, a young war photographer, returns to New York in 1989 after being injured in Kurdistan whilst on assignment. He had spent a few frightening days in the recovery ward of a dilapidated, overcrowded hospital inside a cave, but can this explain his sleeplessness, distraction, his wounds' inability to heal? Elena, Mark's Spanish girlfriend,"
"himself into different animals, and even changes sex when his love for a rival witch named Lisbeth makes this essential. ""The Warlock of Strathearn"" (London, Gollancz 1997) is the first Scottish novel in which his congregation hangs the minister on the instructions of a heretic, rather than the other way round. Whyte's third novel is called ""The Gay Decameron"". Ten gay men assemble for a dinner party in a flat in Edinburgh's New Town. Gradually, the reader comes to know each of their stories and the intricate web of love and desires that links them. One of the party becomes"
"putting the story straight for the decent people of Ballymun. In April 2009, Irish publisher Gill & Macmillan published Ballymun resident Rachael Keogh's account of her life as a heroin addict, ""Dying to Survive"". Rachael started taking drugs aged 12 and for the next 15 years was hooked on a variety of substances. In 2006, after repeated attempts to get help, Rachael went to the media to publicise her plight. In 2010 New Island Books published 'The Ballymun Trilogy' by the Dublin playwright, Dermot Bolger: three plays that chart forty years of life in Ballymun and which were all premiered"
"Mina had not written for comics when she took over the title in 2006, but had three acclaimed crime novels to her name, the Garnetthill trilogy, the first of which won the CWA award for best debut crime novel. Her run on the title took John to Scotland, to attempt to stop a plot to make everybody empathise with each other. However, John fails to stop this, and, overwhelmed by the grief and horror they're forced to empathically share, suicides abound through the people of Glasgow. With help from Gemma Constantine, Angie Spatchcock and Chas Chandler, a plan to reverse"
"Celine Kiernan Celine Kiernan (born October 1967 in Dublin) is an Irish author of fantasy novels for young adults. She is best known for The Moorehawke Trilogy. Set in an alternate renaissance Europe, the trilogy combines fantasy elements with an exploration of political, humanitarian and philosophical themes. The first book of the Moorehawk Trilogy, ""The Poison Throne"", was first published in Ireland in 2008. It won the 2009 ""Readers' Association of Ireland Award"" for best book, was included in the ""White Raven Collection"" (2009) and short listed for the 2009 Irish Book Awards in two categories (best newcomer and best"
"crime novel. Welsh's second major work, the novella ""Tamburlaine Must Die"" (2004), fictionally recounts the last few days in the life of 16th-century English dramatist and poet Christopher Marlowe, author of ""Tamburlaine the Great"". Her third novel, ""The Bullet Trick"" (2006), is set in Berlin, London and Glasgow and narrated from the perspective of magician and conjurer William Wilson. Her fourth novel, ""Naming the Bones"", was published by Canongate Books in March 2010. Her fifth novel, ""The Girl on the Stairs"" is a psychological thriller set in Berlin and published in August 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton. Her sixth novel,"
"and a quick read. Reviewing it for ""The Guardian"", Sarah Diturn suggested the characters were ""unconvincing"". She added, ""As detective fiction it’s shakily assembled, as a horror novel it can’t outpace cinematic torture porn, and as social realism it routinely sends its own plausibility up in smoke."" The Blade Artist The Blade Artist is a 2016 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. The novel is set in the same universe as ""Trainspotting"", catching up with Begbie's past and present. Begbie, going by the name of Jim Francis, is now a Scottish expatriate artist in California and returns to Scotland for"
"Reheated Cabbage Reheated Cabbage is a collection of short stories by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It was released in the United Kingdom in July 2009. The collection is made up of rare works previously published in magazines and out-of-print anthologies, including a Christmas dinner with ""Trainspotting's"" psychotic Francis Begbie, science fiction tale ""The Rosewell Incident"", and a story following Terry ""Juice"" Lawson in Florida. All of the stories in ""Reheated Cabbage"" with the exception of the novella ""I Am Miami"" had been published in the 1990s in now unavailable media. This story is Welsh's gruesome exposition of a dysfunctional marital"
"novel about a secondary schoolboy, and ""The Scots"". During the 1960s and 1970s he published thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin. They were more successful in the US and Canada than in the UK. A collection of his humorous verse in Scots using the pseudonym 'Ebenezer McIlwham' was published by Gordon Wright Publishing of Edinburgh. He also wrote the words of Scotland's unofficial national anthem ""Scotland the Brave"", and both wrote and recorded ""The Glasgow Underground Song"" - a humorous anecdote on the pre-modernisation era Glasgow Subway. A recording of this was made famous by Francie and Josie. He wrote"